Bulgarian

Bulgarian Literature

Bulgarian literature, body of writings in the Bulgarian language. Its origin is closely linked to Christianization of the Slavs beginning with Khan (Tsar) Boris I’s adoption in 864 of the Eastern Orthodox rather than Latin faith for his court and people. This political decision, combined with geographical proximity to Byzantium, determined a key role for Bulgarian in the Balkan development of a first Slavic written language and its corpus of ecclesiastical writings known as Old Bulgarian literature.